Swiss Miss » vacation http://www.amandamark.com One girl's take on widgets, witches, wackiness, wysiwyg and wombats (ok, no wombats or witches) Sat, 21 Aug 2010 18:10:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Oh, Paris… http://www.amandamark.com/2010/01/27/oh-paris/ http://www.amandamark.com/2010/01/27/oh-paris/#comments Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:30:38 +0000 Amanda http://www.amandamark.com/?p=115 paris 276x300 Oh, Paris...

Eating lunch in the Louvre

Favorite things in the city of lights…

  • Sugared lemon crepes
  • Whipped cream crepes
  • Buttered crepes
  • People assuming that I could only speak English (no, really, I liked this)
  • A man puking on the sidewalk without breaking stride while climbing up a huge hill in an, umm, interesting area
  • Cezanne
  • Monet
  • Degas
  • The scam where people pretend to find a “gold” ring on the sidewalk in front of you and then try to give it to you (apparently, Tony looks like their kinda guy)
  • Tony’s umbrella exploding in front of the Arc de Triomphe (as in *literally* every piece of his umbrella separated and jumped in front of the insane traffic roundabout — I don’t think it could handle the shock either)
  • Shoes
  • Marais neighborhood
  • Macaroons

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Eiffel Tower at night


Least favorite things…

  • Fixed menus (onion soup, farm chicken, tarte)
  • Tourist traps
  • Lines (actually, we skipped them all, but still…)
  • Traveling via plane (yes, we were advised to take the train….)
  • Latin Quarter restaurants (sorry!!)
  • The price of macaroons (kid you not…. 3 euros for each little morsel)
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FRENCH: A tout.

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